Media Relations
Tuesday,
September 9,
2003
Mathematics
An Indiana University Bloomington mathematician's recently published critique of a highly publicized study on obesity being socially contagious is now also garnering international attention.
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In summer 2010, a small group of Ph.D. students in the College of Arts and Sciences' Physics Department, led by Jake Bennett, started a summer tutoring program in mathematics and physics for local high school students.
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A mathematician in the Indiana University College of Arts and Sciences is being credited with resolving a 65-year-old problem in combinatorial geometry that sought to determine the minimum number of distinct distances between any finite set of points in a plane.
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Jeffrey Xavier Watt, associate professor of mathematical sciences and associate dean for student affairs and outreach in the School of Science at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, has been named the 2010 Indiana Professor of the Year.
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The Indiana Department of Education is providing more than $1 million over the next three years to continue the Greene County Math Advancement Partnership Project (Greene MAPP). The collaboration of the Indiana University School of Education, the IU Math Department in the College of Arts and Sciences, and five school corporations in Greene County, Ind., is concluding an original two-year grant, which focused on helping kindergarten through sixth-grade teachers learn new techniques for teaching math concepts. The new grant of $1,103,548 will extend the program to teachers in grades four through eight.
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Could our universe be located within the interior of a wormhole which itself is part of a black hole that lies within a much larger universe?
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